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#scribesandmakers

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John Hartley Writer<p>My new novel ‘This Is Not The End’ comes with a free digital (and limited CD) soundtrack album when bought from my Bandcamp site. </p><p>Those of you who buy it elsewhere can get the soundtrack from Apple etc, and it’s also streaming on Spotify.</p><p>Nobody needs miss out 🎉</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1BKGuKSiDsKzeYZdIrHgpD?si=4CooHP3IQka2JiRsmpdDQw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/album/1BKGuKS</span><span class="invisible">iDsKzeYZdIrHgpD?si=4CooHP3IQka2JiRsmpdDQw</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a><br><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a><br><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/readingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>readingcommunity</span></a><br><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a></p>
Hannah Steenbock<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/5. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>I price my eBooks fairly low. I offer print for a reasonable price (so I make about the same as with my eBooks), and I offer four freebies (first in series) so readers can get used to my style.</p><p>I don't do sales, except through my newsletter and then only in my own store through coupons. Because my newsletter people deserve it.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
David Bridger<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 5th April 2025. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>My publisher does it.</p>
Anderlandbooks<p><a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 5. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>I always stay as low as possible while still making at least some kind of profit.</p><p>And yes, I do sales. They generate reviews &amp; spill-over. At least it worked that way while I was still on KDP select. I still have to see the results from Smashwords.</p><p>BTW, I tested out audible books. They're only available on Amazon.com, and if you're new, they're on sale.<br>Look for Anna K. Thomas!</p>
Art of Goulwen R<p>If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?<br> <br>Yes I sold my work (I’m finishing putting the French edition on the store, English will be available soon) </p><p>I fix the price to be inline with comics books of the same pages count. Obviously it doesn’t allow me to get a revenue from, but it covers printing and promoting costs and taxes. </p><p>I fix a minimum price, but let people pay more if they want and can. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2025-04-05</p><p>[Ill.: Chapter Two is here!]</p>
adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/5. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>I write mostly in series and always make the first one the lowest price and then bring the others up to a typical price. I never bother with "sales" because the price is already low.</p><p>But the race to the bottom is not helpful. And although not 100% relevant to electronic products, I remember something I read a very long time ago: "If you halve your profit you have to double your sales".</p><p>Also in the far past I used to sell magazine advertising space (for my own newsstand magazine) I was good at it though I didn't enjoy it.</p><p>The point is that we kept reducing the price to "get people in" but eventually I said we should triple the price. Which worked because if it's expensive it must be valuable, right?</p><p>So I'll never cut the price of MONSTERS, because it's a single book and it's really good. People need to pay for it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Spooky Panda 🇺🇦<p>So, I figured I should offer a life update and some context. Things have been too insane lately. I'm taking a wee break from the writing hashtags right now to focus on the one I run. It's pretty much all that I have time for right now. I'm sure everyone's noticed that I fell off for a bit. Next month, I'll be back for everyone else's lovely tags. </p><p>I adore you guys. Stay cool. 💚</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PennedPossibilities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PennedPossibilities</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Elyse M Grasso<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 5. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>At the time I was setting prices, Kindle royalty rates changed drastically for anything below 2.99. I myself buy a lot of ebooks on sale for 2.99 or less, so I set my ebook list price at 5.99 to facilitate 50% off sales.</p><p>The new tariffs may have nuked my POD paperback pricing, originally set at 19.99 to allow a tiny profit without crossing the $20 psychological barrier. My ebooks pay me better.</p>
Quasi<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4: Handle praise well, or embarrassed?</p><p>Neither. I tend to deflect praise, but not from discomfort, more because I don't feel it's warranted. Part imposter syndrome, part feeling if I was truly that good, I'd have more readers/viewers.</p><p>At the same time, complete lack of praise tanks my productivity. If I push to get my serial out and it's crickets for a month, I feel like what's the point. My head's a mess.</p>
Cara Bruar<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> </p><p>April 5. If you sell your work, how do you decide on a price? Do you offer sale prices?</p><p>I look at similar work and match those prices, although generally I try to price low. People don't have much to spare these days. </p><p>I have done sales in the past but the response was poor. In the good old days if you gave something away free you'd have hundreds of takers but now, hardly a blip, so I don't do that any more.</p>
Simon Ashcroft<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4, Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>Dunno... Maybe I'll get the chance to find out, one day...</p><p>🤔🙄</p>
Jojo (they/them)<p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;4/4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>It's not my natural instinct to do so, but I have learned to receive praise graciously. I then pivot to talking about what I enjoyed about the project or something I learned doing it or where the idea came from or something like that.</p>
Sandra Bond<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed?</p><p>Yes.</p><p>Which, being unpacked, means: yes, I do get embarrassed, but I'm infinitely better at concealing that nowadays. And yes, I do handle it well, partly as a result of that learned skill. I think I can walk a line between smugness and diffidence, and hit the target of modest gratitude to the complimentor.</p>
NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4/4. Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? Part 2.</p><p>My elders taught me that you are showing disrespect for other person when you refuse honesty given praise or a gift. (Not bribes or flattery)</p><p>A Buddhist monk I studied with briefly put it this way, "When you refuse praise or a gift you are denying the other person the karma that comes from such an acts."</p><p>Kind of the same message. Gifts and praise are as much about the giver as the reciever.</p><p>The Western culture of refusing these things is kind of wierd.</p><p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMSAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NMSAM</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NMPrompts</span></a></p>
Gerald So<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Apr 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>Who's to say it's right or wrong to play achievements down? It can be positive not to let success go to one's head.</p><p>Outwardly and maybe reflexively I shrink from praise. Inwardly it gratifies me. Part of the reason I do anything is to ultimately do it well by my own standard, and if my standard is calibrated correctly, others will agree, no surprise or embarrassment.</p>
Kem Herkes<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Day 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>I am a bottomless sponge for praise, but w/huge caveats: it has to be subject-focused and resonate as sincere. I don't get embarrassed, but most compliments aimed at me are stealth delivery vehicles for unsolicited criticism.</p><p>The more vague the compliment, the more I brace for "But" followed by a complaint.</p><p>Learning to say thank you &amp; quickly change the subject was a Big Life Hack.</p>
Elyse M Grasso<p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 4 Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>I was raised female, but I'm old and spent a few decades as a consultant, so I eventually internalized that when people praise something I did, it wasn't that the thing was easy, it was because I was good at what I did.</p><p>As a corollary, it can be good for the blood pressure to remember that when other people can't do what I think is simple, they may not be stupid, I am just good at it. 1/</p>
Sifaseven<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> Day 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>My family is traditional Asian, so I was brought up to downplay any praise or demur any compliment that came my way. It's only recently that I've been able to take any sincere compliment in stride.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a></p>
Klepsis<p><a href="https://indieauthors.social/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> <br>Apr 4: Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down?</p><p>Sincere praise is always welcome.</p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis</p></blockquote><p>Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me. </p><p>I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. <em>A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!</em></p><p>Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.</p><p>Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
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